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CBDC - what is it?
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CBDC
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What is a CBDC? Central bank digital currencies explained
October 15, 2026
Digital Euro ECB update
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CBDC
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The ECB’s digital euro goals become clearer in its bid to digitise finance
October 7, 2026
ECB digital euro
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CBDC
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ECB hits the switch on wholesale digital euro for banks
September 23, 2026
Frankfurt, Germany - 19 September, 2015: European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany - the ECB is the central bank for the euro
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CBDC
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Merchants next in line for digital euro testing
September 15, 2026
Payment Expert Podcast: NTT DATA
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Crypto & Digital Assets
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Payment Expert Podcast: NTT DATA's Vikram Bharwani on the 2030 digital money split
September 2, 2026
Russia A7
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Crypto & Digital Assets
Time to read: 3 min
Russia's digital rouble becomes mandatory on 1 September
August 26, 2026
Payment Expert Podcast: Digital Pound and stablecoins settling together
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CBDC
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Payment Expert Podcast: testing the Digital Pound and stablecoins together
August 19, 2026
Euro cash on the rise
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Europe
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Cash is not dead in Europe… its very much alive 
August 18, 2026
Head Office of the People's Bank of China. PBOC is China's central bank under the State Council. China is pushing ahead with a pilot project to develop the digital yuan
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CBDC
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China expands digital yuan network with eight new banks
August 18, 2026
The exterior of the Bank of England - comment UK Finance
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CBDC
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Bank of England puts digital pound and stablecoins to test
August 13, 2026
Digital Euro pilot phase launch
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CBDC
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ECB kickstarts digital euro pilot tests readying it for 2029 launch
July 14, 2026
Bank of England on stablecoins
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Stablecoins
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Bank of England eyes rails for stablecoins, digital pound
June 26, 2026
CLARITY Act, CFTC
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CBDC
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Congress bans Fed CBDC for four years, stablecoins exempt
June 24, 2026
European Parliament passes digital euro vote
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Europe
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Europe’s digital euro set for 12 month live testing before 2029 launch
June 24, 2026
Money20/20: OpenPayd, Swift and Mambu on the future of tokenisation
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Stablecoins
Time to read: 4 min
Money20/20 Europe: OpenPayd, Swift and Mambu on the road to tokenised payments
June 4, 2026
Sign at the entrance of new European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Payments
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ECB maps out path towards near round-the-clock T2 operations
June 1, 2026
ECB President questions need for European stablecoins.
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Cryptocurrencies
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ECB’s Lagarde doubles down on stablecoin scepticism
May 11, 2026
ECB President questions need for European stablecoins.
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Stablecoins
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Tokenisation needs central banks to reach scale, ECB says
May 5, 2026
Digital euro standards to cut reliance on card schemes
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CBDC
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ECB moves to cut reliance on card schemes in digital euro build
April 27, 2026
A smart phone showing an interpretation of a digital euro
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CBDC
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ECB opens workstreams to embed digital euro into ATMs and terminals
March 20, 2026
Digital Euro
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CBDC
Time to read: 10 min
Is the Digital Euro the 'Schrödinger's cat' of payment innovation?
March 11, 2026
Digital euro
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CBDC
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How the digital Euro plans to cut US payment dominance
March 6, 2026
Bank of Japan to test blockchain for interbank settlement.
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Blockchain
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Bank of Japan tests blockchain for interbank settlement
March 3, 2026
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Featured Articles
Elon Musk's X Money super app vision
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Features & Analysis
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Welcome to Elon Musk’s X Money: banking, payments and crypto 
October 13, 2026
HSBC on instant payments and tokenisation
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Payments
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HSBC: why trust has become the real-time payments differentiator
October 9, 2026
Fintech Unwrapped: Mastercard x BVNK multi-currency accounts
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Featured
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Fintech Unwrapped: Mastercard rolls out new offline payments solution
October 9, 2026
Why CLARITY Act has failed on its promise
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Cryptocurrencies
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Where the CLARITY Act went wrong: ethics, in-fighting and Trump’s presence
October 6, 2026